1. Astronomy
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2. ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY
Planets
Atomic Structure
Stars
Expanding Universe
Miscellaneous
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3. What is at the center of the solar system in a heliocentric system.

4. The first person to use a telescope to look at the sky.

5. Kepler discovered that the planets orbit the sun in this shape.

6. Galileo observed that from Earth this planet went through similar phases as the moon.

7. The Goldilocks Conditions

8. The name of the subatomic particle with a negative charge.

9. The subatomic particle seen here.

10. What the atomic number tells you about an element.

11. What happens when the number of protons in an atom changes.

12. The number of neutrons that are in the element shown below.24 Cr
Chromium 52

13. The amount of light a star gives off.

14. The stage of the star life cycle that our sun is in.

15. A diagram that shows the relationship between the surface temperatures of stars and their absolute brightness.

16. How all stars begin.

17. The nuclear reaction that is occurring at the sun’s core and the elements involved.

18. What a red shift can tell us about the motion of an object.

19. The shift of wavelengths of energy emitted by an energy source moving away from or toward an observer.

20. Estimated time when the big bang occurred.

21. Radiation left over from the Big Bang.

22. Two evidences that support the Big Bang Theory.

23. The color of visible light that has the shortest wavelengths.

24. An emission spectrum consisting of bright lines against a dark background.

25. A complete range of wavelengths from radiation.

26. An instrument that is used to observe the spectrum of light emitted from an object.

27. Five characteristics used to classify stars.